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Some background to get the #MurderSheWrote Ask Me Anything rolling: I was a writer/producer on the show for seasons 8 and 9 (leaving 9 about midway through to do Babylon 5), working with EP David Moessinger who was brought in to run the show when the ratings sagged --
-- because the stories had, in the network's view, become a bit too dry and told the expected stories in the expected ways. David and I moved Jessica Fletcher to NY in order to freshen up the show (while keeping her home in Cabot Cove) and I decided to make her --
-- a criminology instructor on a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer basis a la my own mentorship with writer Norman Corwin. We focused on making her actual work as a writer more of the story, to which point I moved her off the manual typewriter onto a computer, not just to --
